<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We are pleased to announce a round of updates to BigFix Firewall!<br><br>New enhancements include support for Windows Vista and Server 2008, updates to the Firewall Policy Wizard, the Compliance Policy Wizard and the Firewall Dashboard.<br><br>Major new features include the ability to create interface level firewall rules, specify additional priority levels for rules, choose to turn logging on/off per rule, support for "other" protocols, and a myriad of UI enhancements.<br><br>There is also now a version of the dashboard viewable in Web Reports and an example Baseline that shows how to configure dynamic firewall policies based on compliance.<br><br>The documentation has been updated accordingly <a href="http://support.bigfix.com/product/documents/Firewall_deployment_080723.pdf">http://support.bigfix.com/product/documents/Firewall_deployment_080723.pdf</a><br><br>We hope you enjoy the new features and as always look for more enhancements in the future!<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">For more information about BigFix Firewall please contact your sales representative or email <a href="mailto:sales@bigfix.com" title="mailto:sales@bigfix.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">sales@bigfix.com</a>.</span><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>The BigFix Product Team<br><br>The following is a detailed list of the changes:<br><br>Firewall Policy Wizard<br>- added the ability to create zone rules and add interfaces to a zone<br>- added the ability to designate rules as applicable to a particular zone<br>- added an additional priority level<br>- added the ability to control logging on a per rule basis for prevent rules<br>- added move up/down buttons to allow reordering of rules<br>- firewall and zone rules are now listed in the descriptions of generated tasks<br>- added support for "other" protocols<br>- added links in the wizard to activate analyses if necessary<br>- removed check box for 'apply immediately' and instead generate two action links, one for deploy and one for deploy and apply<br>- firewall policy tasks will now only be relevant if the necessary services are running<br>- removed the ICMP rule from the XP firewall template due to incompatibility with rules auto inserted to allow BigFix traffic<br><br>Compliance Policy Wizard<br>- added links in the wizard to activate analyses if necessary<br>- updated generated relevance to improve Compliance API detection<br>- improved UI for adding custom compliance checks<br>- fixed a minor UI issue where text could wrap improperly<br>- removed .xml from the title of generated tasks<br>- added missing text to the task description when a BigFix AV check is specified<br>- changed text from Norton to Symantec<br><br>Deploy and Upgrade Fixlets<br>- updated to deploy a new engine that fixes a problem where zones were not always initialized properly<br>- Added support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008<br><br>Firewall Policies Analysis<br>- updated to include Active Zone Rules and Available Zone Rules properties<br><br>Configuration Information Analysis<br>- added a new property to return available network interfaces (used by the Firewall Policy Wizard when creating zone rules)<br><br>Disable Windows Firewall Fixlet<br>- updated to utilize the firewall inspectors<br><br>Improper Status of BigFix Firewall Services<br>- added a new Fixlet to detect and fix when any of the required services are not running and set to start automatically<br><br>Example Client Compliance Configuration Baseline<br>- added a new Baseline as an example of how to set up client compliance evaluation to dynamically load different firewall policies<br><br>Firewall Dashboard<br>- added a new chart for deployed compliance policies<br>- reworked custom statistics UI to be much cleaner and allow the dashboard to fit on smaller screens.<br><br>Web Reports<br>- added a Web Reports version of the Firewall Dashboard (7.0 only)<br></div></body></html>